Song Quotes · Page 596

I am passionate about singing, and I strive to improve with every song and keep getting better.

— Guru Randhawa

I've always got these little melodies running around in my head, although most of them aren't worth much, and I understand structure…

— Eddie Rabbitt

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.

— Merle Haggard

B.B. King wanted people to carry the torch. He wanted people to keep that music alive, and he would talk about it.

— Derek Trucks

Many great composers have died in poverty. I have not faced hardships, like having to struggle for food, thanks to reasonable producers.

— Ilaiyaraaja

The moment when one thing turns into another is the most beautiful moment. A combination of sounds turns into music. And that…

— Vik Muniz

I don't know where I belong, I don't know where I went wrong, but I can write a song.

— Anonymous

Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.

— Steve Earle

I always have melodies flowing in my head - whether I'm just at home, at the mall, at a restaurant or wherever.…

— Manika

Sometimes things fall in your lap and sometimes you really carve them out. I've found that songs I really like can happen…

— Ben Rector

When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run…

— David Crosby

Billie doesn't actually like recording sessions at all. We like making music together. She doesn't like going to some big studio and…

— Finneas

I really love the fact that instrumental music can have you do your own inner-movies or your own visuals to the sound.…

— Trentemøller

'Paper Planes' by M.I.A. is very catchy. I like that, but I listen to everything from rap to Lenny Kravitz to Coldplay,…

— Keshia Knight Pulliam

Hope Ur OK' makes me really sad, in a great way - it just makes me really emotional. It's a super personal…

— Olivia Rodrigo

Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody…

— Paul Simon

I really feel that I've been unjustly exorcised from the story of psychedelic music.

— Genesis P-Orridge

I feel like music is just a platform and foundation just to be able to explore and see what's outside of it.

— Jeremih

Nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what the Sex Pistols were able to do in their time.

— Julien Temple

I love when people cover songs that are familiar but have been kind of forgotten about.

— Cassadee Pope

Once a song comes out, these songs aren't mine. They're everybody's. So there you go.

— Mac DeMarco

Where better than the church for people like me, George Jones and Johnny Cash to go to get ourselves in shape enough…

— Marty Stuart

At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks too Duke Ellington.

— Miles Davis

Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.

— Kara DioGuardi

Music takes me where I go. I'm always open to wherever the journey will take me.

— Paul Rodgers

My dad has been fond of music since childhood. He used to play and sing in his college band in Russia.

— Jonita Gandhi

I've written songs about love or about a relationship, but never just, 'I love you.'

— Matt Skiba

I want to pursue music in the future, but I'm taking it a step at a time and making sure I'm constantly…

— Naomi Scott

I feel like I write the same album every time but each time I try to convey the message more simply.

— Jason Mraz

“There are two types of people in the world: people who like heavy metal, and dicks.”

— Andrew O'Neill

For me to have the opportunity to learn the darbuka and the tabla in Dubai, it created my own thoughts for music.

— Jain

Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

— Anonymous

When I miss Guru, I bump one of our records. Then I shed a tear and get back to work.

— DJ Premier

Times are tough in the music industry, and now more than ever we need people like the team at Paste looking out…

— Cary Brothers

There's never anything planned. I just do what I feel is best for the song at that time.

— Mark Kozelek

I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you…

— Pete Seeger

I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad.

— Dan Bejar

It's funny how 1 text, 1 song, 1 mistake, 1 lie, 1 word, 1 truth, and 1 person could change your mood in 1 second …

— Anonymous

My basic setup is my Ibanez Fireman guitars and for pedals, the TC Electronic MojoMojo is the mainstay of my board, along…

— Paul Gilbert